0:00What's going on, man? Welcome back to the basement. I'm running with week one now behind us. It's time to talk through
0:05my must-add waiver wire targets for week two of the fantasy football season. All of the players we mentioned today will be under 50% owned in ESPN fantasy
0:15football leagues. As always, if you enjoy, leave a like, subscribe if you're new. Now, I will say at the top, this is
0:21not the week to splash out on the waiver wire. This is a hoardier FAB, see what comes in, see what people drop on the
0:28waiver wire as well. People might rage cut a player or do something crazy.
0:33Be on the lookout that Wednesday, Thursday as things roll in and people cut their players, what kind of another man's trash is our treasure on the
0:43waiver wire. Uh but, this is what we're dealing with. All right, we have all the injuries in the world for quarterback, wide receiver,
0:49tight end from Adam Levitan here, nothing at RB. Of course, the big smash pickups on the waiver wire are always going to be handcuffs. If a running back
0:58goes down, he then becomes a top 20 start, which brings us to our first priority add. Our number one add of the
1:04week is Raheem Black. If McCaffrey twists his ankle or goes down in any capacity, Raheem Black would be a top 15
1:12play in any given week. So, he needs to be rostered everywhere. You can see here he is rostered in 16% of leagues. The
1:19first players we're going to talk about at the top of this video, and how this format works for me when it
1:24comes to waiver wire videos, is I talk through my priority adds up top. Players that I'm bidding 10% or more of my FAB
1:30budget on, and then we'll get to my running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, and quarterbacks, players that I'm not bidding more than 5% on, and really
1:38I want to see them roll through for $0, or maybe waivers roll through and then you pick them up for free,
1:44uh that sort of deal when we get to those positions later on. Of course, if you want to know exactly how much FAB
1:50I'm bidding on every single player, you can find that over on the Patreon, patreon.com/ronstewart.
1:55When you sign up for the basement, you get all of these things and more. Of course, you can check that out in the
2:00description and the comments section below. Essentially, what's going to happen here is I'm going to post this video and then I'm going to write my
2:05waiver wire article on the Patreon where I outline exactly how much FAB I'm bidding on every single one of these players. This video is really more to
2:13get my thoughts organized. Now, with Kaylin Black, he of course comes out here and crushes the rookie running back carousel, 44% of the snaps, eight PPR
2:23points in this game, 7.9 in terms of volume. He actually split carries with McCaffrey with a 50% rush share.
2:30Really, really awesome usage. Now, what I will say about Kaylin Black is he was a zero in the receiving game. He
2:35essentially profiles very similarly to a Blake Corum, a guy you don't have the balls to start in a given week, but is
2:41going to get enough volume that he's going to have the Kalen Ballage week where he rips off a long run, scores a
2:46touchdown, you're going to regret that you didn't start him, but it's just not enough volume. He did get 14 attempts in
2:52a positive game script here, but because he's not getting used in the red zone like McCaffrey, he ends up with eight
2:56PPR points on a 43% snap share, but again, he is to me the most valuable handcuff potentially available on waivers. Now, I will throw out Jaylen
3:05Coker as a priority add here.
3:08He's likely not available, 50.9% rostered. He is right at our threshold of 50% and probably shouldn't even be on this video, but he's at least worth
3:15talking about. He is the wide receiver one overall after week one. He goes absolutely nuts with 130-plus receiving yards. He of course plays the Bears
3:24defense and it's just a week where everybody ate in that game, I guess besides K.J. Osborn and the Bears receivers, but eight catches, 138 yards,
3:34two touchdowns for Jaylen Coker. But, this is somebody heading into year three of his career with year three breakout potential. You have Terrace Marshall and
3:42then Jaylen Coker and it's nobody else in this receiving game and there's a lot of room here for volume. He's actually had
3:49a really good stretch here over his last eight games from JJ Zachariason. He has had 16 PPR points per game, 2.3 yards
3:55per route run, and 21% targets per route run over his last eight games. Those are all really, really strong numbers. I
4:02think that he is a wide receiver three or flex play moving forward. Just be a little cautious here. He does have an
4:08ankle injury. We'll see how this shakes out. It could be nothing. It's just something worth monitoring before you go crazy. Uh we'll also mention Tyler
4:16Allgeier. This is where it gets tricky this time of year. Like there's no world where Tyler Allgeier should be available on your waivers, but if he is, he
4:22apparently is only rostered in 42% of leagues. Obviously, you grab him.
4:26Jeremiah Love uh is awesome, but Tyler Allgeier is very much in this backfield as well. He has some standalone value in
4:32a pinch, and then also is one of the biggest handcuffs in the league, especially if this Cardinals offense is going to actually be good. And then our
4:39final priority add is Emitt Johnson. Again, everybody else we're going to talk through in the rest of this video, I would not be willing to
4:45bid more than 10% of my FAB budget. Only we have Emitt Johnson. He was actually the player on the picture of the week
4:54one waiver wire video we did. We told you to go scoop him up. Of course, we wait to make this video until the Monday
5:01Night Football game happens, and he was the only non-Kenneth Walker running back to register a snap in this game. He is a
5:09pure handcuff. I wouldn't go crazy bidding on handcuffs. If you have Kenneth Walker, I wouldn't be like, "Oh, go and spend 30% on Emitt Johnson." But
5:16he's just a nice player to have. I love Kenneth Walker. He looked amazing last night. But certainly an issue for Kenneth Walker over his his entire
5:22career has been health. And Emitt Johnson looked good. He had a huge, huge gain as well. Right I think it was like a third and long. Uh he
5:32ended up catching a pass, taking it almost to the first down marker, and looking really good. He had a ton of
5:38missed tackles forced.
5:40He looks like a solid player that if Kenneth Walker goes down, Emitt Johnson steps right in as a top 15 play in a
5:46good offense attached to Andy Reid. And I think there's even upside there where Emari Demercado could be a good player in his own right. And then all of a
5:53sudden, instead of starting him in a similar fashion like Kareem Hunt last year, where you start Kareem Hunt begrudgingly, Emari Demercado could be a
5:59guy that you are excited to start if Kenneth Walker was to miss time. And I will actually bring it up here. I
6:05charted him, and this is actually another reason why you should watch my waiver wire video, is because if a rookie plays on Monday night, I will
6:11usually update you guys on how that rookie did. He ends up here as the second highest scorer this week with 8.8
6:18PPR points, a 26% rush share, 30% route share, 8% target share on just 30% of the routes is a very similar usage
6:25profile to Jeremiah Love, where he was actually getting a lot of touches when he was on the field or actually getting
6:31targeted a lot in the passing game when he ran a route.
6:35His volume was less than Keaontay Ingram, less than Jerick McKinnon. Emari Demercado is probably a small tier below Keaontay Ingram as a handcuff, but he is
6:42still a really strong handcuff, and even more so than your Mike Washington or your Seth McGowan, just based on this team, how much points they're going to
6:50score, and that Emari Demercado looks like a really good player leading this entire list in fantasy points over expected with 2.1.
6:58Now, we will get to our part of the video where we simply just mention the players to go through and add. These aren't This isn't drop
7:08everybody on your bench and grab these three running backs right now. This is just if you have room, if you're moving
7:12somebody to your IR spot. I'm looking at my Uridine League Mates team right now.
7:15It seems like I can move Trayveon Henderson to the IR spot. There is a ton of running backs that have bangs and
7:22bruises, Dylan Sampson being one of them. You could actually probably cut Dylan Sampson. I will say I get asked that question all the time, like who can
7:27we cut? I was looking through it. Really the only guys I'm comfortable cutting are Dylan Sampson, you can hang on to Jonah Williams for
7:34another week if you'd like, but you can also drop him if you want. And then the two receivers to me that are easy drops
7:38are Kalif Raymond and Rashid Shaheed.
7:42Outside of that, it's only week one. I wouldn't go crazy with the drops just yet. But with Keaton Mitchell, he was
7:48the only other non-Amarion Hampton running back on the Chargers to take a snap. He also had the third most slot routes among running backs. Just kind of
7:56showcasing here from Kyle Dvorchak that McDaniel is getting really creative and Keeton Mitchell is a part of that, using him in the receiving game. Ladd McConkey
8:04hurt as well.
8:05We're going to talk about Trey Harris later on as a guy you could probably elevate because of that injury, but there's also a chance that he wants to
8:11use Keeton Mitchell in the slot and not take over for Ladd McConkey but have some fun usage there. And then of
8:17course, he is likely the Hampton handcuff. Now, I will say the reason he's not a tier higher is I do have some concern. Even
8:24though Camani Vidal didn't register a single snap, if Hampton goes down, it wouldn't shock me if it became like a 50/50 split between
8:33Keeton Mitchell and Camani Vidal. As someone that loves Keeton Mitchell, I wouldn't love that scenario, but it's definitely out there.
8:39Whereas I think Emari Demercado and Keilan Black very clearly would be bell cows if the main running back went down along with Tyler Allgeier as well. Then
8:47we can talk about Chris Rodriguez. He's definitely not available in your league, but if he is, he is the 1B running back
8:52for the Jaguars who look to be absolutely humming here. And then Kendre Miller. He matches Etienne in carries in this game, was a real thorn in his side
9:00early on in this game. And then as it became this weird shootout in the dome, all of a sudden Etienne ends up with
9:06like nine targets. But Kendre Miller is a good handcuff with potential not stand-alone upside, but he could maybe carve out like 10 to 12 carries a
9:15week and really kind of grow his role in this offense. Then we'll talk about my wide receivers and I have them split up
9:20into two different tiers. One is production. If you need a player to go in your flex spot right now, you're down
9:25bad. You lost A.J. Brown. You lost Ladd McConkey. You're looking at your flex options and your flex options are Romeo Doubs and Jaylen Nailor. And all of a
9:31sudden, you need somebody to start right away, then look no further than the production tier. We have first up Deonte Vail who's almost a fringe priority ad.
9:40I will say he is a really wonky receiver just as a holistic profile. What I mean by that is he is a year three player
9:51that is 28 years old. So it's tough to envision massive upside here.
9:55But there is also some year three breakout potential. Why he's so old is he did one of those I don't even know
9:59how they work. It's like the LDS missions. He went to Utah. A lot of these kids in that Utah area, BYU, Utah.
10:05Uh they end up doing like overseas missions for religious stuff and then they come back and it just makes them super old comparative to them playing in
10:13the NFL. Deonte Vail I support suppose has some juice to fully break out. This is an offense that did run the most
10:20plays in week one and sure it was a overtime game in a dome, but this is a Saints team that is going to
10:25push the tempo every single week with Kellen Moore and play in a lot of dome games. They play in New Orleans, they
10:30play in Atlanta. There's a lot of things happening here where the Saints offense you want pieces of this passing game and while Jordan
10:37Tyson is gone, I think Deonte Vail is a very clean ad if you need a guy to start right away. I don't know what his true
10:44upside is, but I think he's a flex play moving forward. Kind of like Trey Tucker last year. It's not going to be super
10:49sexy, but the Saints offense should be much better than the Raiders when we're talking about comparisons there. Uh this is from Mark Dank over at Establish the
10:57Run showing that this is also a really consolidated receiver room, which is awesome. Unlike the Texans where they're showing uh they're throwing Jared Wayne
11:05and these randoms out there running routes. It's it's insane how some of these teams just kind of really dig into the bottom of the barrel when they have
11:14these players running routes. Here though, it is 63 dropbacks for Tyler Shuck. Olave gets banged up in this one, but it's 58
11:23routes for Vail, 55 for Olave, 45 for Bryce Lance, and then six combined for the next two best receivers on this
11:30list. That is amazing because of that consolidation, it means De'Von Achane is going to be fantasy relevant because this team is going to be very up-tempo
11:39and pass-heavy. So, De'Von Achane is a huge huge add that again, I think is right on the fringe. If you're in a deep
11:44three wide receiver one flex league and you got nothing for that wide receiver three spot, De'Von Achane you could definitely go up to 10% on. Then we'll
11:51talk about the other ones.
11:53Dontayvion Wicks, I wouldn't go crazy.
11:55He's the wide receiver two on the Eagles, you can take that for what it is. Uh I think they were going to see
11:59better days ahead for both DeVonta Smith and Quez Watkins. Uh Demario Douglas, he led the Patriots in routes run. A.J.
12:05Brown is now hurt. I'm not the biggest Romeo Doubs fan, but also Demario Douglas his role likely won't even grow with
12:11A.J. Brown hurt. It's really more the target distribution. When I say his role won't grow, it's he's this slot-only receiver and the Patriots are very
12:18old-school with like wanting Quez Watkins out there and A.J. Brown before he got hurt and Doubs and uh even lining up Eli Ricks in the play receiver and
12:25block on a screen play where the running back comes behind them.
12:28All of this is what I'm saying is that because Demario Douglas doesn't play on the outside like A.J. Brown, his route
12:32share likely stays the same, but I think they're going to scheme him up more touches. You have Malik Washington. He led the Dolphins in routes run and
12:40target share. 32% target share, just not sure it will matter in this offense. And then you have Rashod Bateman. Zay Flowers is banged up. Quez Watkins is
12:48banged up. This could be the time for Rashod Bateman to step up in a year that seems like Lamar could go nuclear. And
12:55then you have our stash tier where we can start bringing up the rookie receiver report that we talked about in yesterday's video at length. It's always
13:05a little bit tricky trying to show this to you guys for the rookies on this list, but of course, you have Antonio
13:09Williams across the bottom, right? Like I I I've now shrunk this to a spot where actually I'll I'll throw my my head up
13:16here uh right under Antonio Williams. Uh you can see monster production. He had the highest PPR output of anybody on
13:24this list. And yes, he only ran 29% of the routes, but to turn 11 routes into four catches, 64 yards, one touchdown,
13:33four first downs, perfect pass rating when targeted is absolutely amazing from Antonio Williams. He is the biggest stash in my opinion because what we're
13:42hoping for with him is that that route share grows from a 29% up to an 80% plus, and there is room
13:50here with uh Diggs being in a part-time role and Dyami Brown getting a ton of routes ahead of him. Dyami Brown could
13:56get scaled all the way down. Diggs remains part-time, and then all of a sudden Antonio Williams is an 80% routes player. He could also be absolutely
14:03nothing, but we want to be betting on these rookie receivers. That's why we have this in general because rookie receivers are often times league winners
14:11down the stretch. We've seen it with Elijah Moore, and I bring this graphic up every time, but if you're confused why we are obsessed with stashing rookie
14:17wide receivers, it's because we are hunting for these guys down the stretch.
14:20This year's Jayden Reed, Rashee Rice, Amon-Ra St. Brown, all of these guys who were week one pickups that ended up mattering down the stretch. Then we of
14:29course have Caleb Douglas.
14:30He also pops all the way up here when it comes to the rookie receiver report. He absolutely crushed it as well. It's just
14:37that he happens to be on the Dolphins. I am much higher on Antonio Williams on Washington. Caleb Douglas has a similar
14:42issue to Malik Washington. Uh number one wide receiver attached to Malik Willis in a bad offense, but he did crush everything on a per route basis. 19%
14:50targets per route run, almost three yards per route run, almost 10% first downs per route run. Seven targets, five catches, 94 yards, a 24% target share,
14:58two missed tackles forced on his five catches. Everything is there. It's just how far can Malik Willis get you? Now, we don't have rookies as our next two
15:07highest uh adds in terms of stashes, but you have Pat Bryant who looked awesome on Monday night. Now, he wasn't a full-time
15:17receiver. Sutton and Waddle out.
15:21I was going to say like out-routed him, but they had more routes run than Pat Bryant, but Pat Bryant had, especially
15:27in the first half, he had like three first downs out the gate. He looked awesome. I think that he is going to be
15:31somebody where his routes flip Courtland Sutton by the end of the season as a really strong stash. He's not running enough routes to be startable, but he's
15:39getting a really, really close, and he did lead this team in target share on Monday night. Then you have Trey Harris,
15:46who I mentioned here. Just simply, Ladd McConkey is hurt. Trey Harris has year two upside. Was a fun prospect. He could
15:51potentially break out in this offense.
15:54And then we'll switch back to the rookie wide receivers here. You have Malachi Fields first.
15:59He is a part-time receiver, but 19% targets per route run is a really strong number that he could improve upon as a
16:06real target in this offense after Neighbors, after Likely. It's really nobody else. Uh and then Elijah Sorrell, who didn't even qualify on the rookie
16:14receiver report, but was a prospect I really liked coming out of Indiana. And now that Zay Flowers is banged up, and
16:20now that Jacobi Lane is banged up, he could be a guy who emerges. Then we'll talk about our quarterbacks and tight
16:27ends here as we wrap things up. When it comes to tight end, uh Michael Mayer likely already got picked up off of
16:33waivers, but he was the tight end six in expected points per game. He had the ninth highest route share, really good
16:38usage, and he is a top 12 tight end in any game that Brock Bowers misses. Pat Freiermuth scored a touchdown, 70% plus
16:45of the routes. That's all we're looking for. Dalton Schultz 70% plus of the routes, but he didn't score a touchdown like Freiermuth. Evan Engram on Monday
16:52night 70% plus of the routes, scored a touchdown. This is, you know, Mayer, Freiermuth, Schultz will be rostered in like most competitive leagues. If you're
17:01really down bad, you whiffed on the Bowers replacement, you're staring at like Terrance Ferguson behind him. Evan Engram, there's worse things to do than
17:08roster Evan Engram. Uh he had a real role on Monday night, but we'll see if that sticks. Sean Payton, of course, is
17:13a mad scientist. And then and You can stash Kylen Granson. Now, I'm not saying to drop everybody to make room for Kony Ealy.
17:21There is plenty of scenarios where Kony Ealy is not this year's year's Harold Fannin, but it certainly could happen.
17:27He looked awesome. He had a strong debut. 25% targets per route running. He had a rushing touchdown. The team wants to get him the ball. He had a 1.75 yards
17:34per route run. Uh Omar Cooper is now banged up, who I do want to actually mention Omar Cooper.
17:40You could maybe maybe stash him and put him on your IR spot. I wouldn't be crazy about it, but I did want to mention him.
17:45I I should have mentioned him in the rookie receiver report yesterday. He did have one catch, long gain of like almost
17:5040 yards, multiple missed tackles forced. Like essentially everything that you were sold on with Omar Cooper of being this YAC monster after the catch,
17:58and then he gets rolled up on after his first career catch. But, it looked good enough and this Jets offense was
18:03interesting enough that I actually think Omar Cooper, it's a stock up for him, but then of course, he's got to work
18:08back from this ankle injury. Then he's got to get back up to speed with the offense. So, he's really behind the
18:11eight ball, but I did just want to mention Omar Cooper uh since I didn't touch on him yesterday. But, Kony Ealy
18:16is somebody that with Omar Cooper's absence could completely step up here into a full-time role as a really fun chess piece for this offense. Frank
18:23Reich was kind of in his bag. Uh I think on the touchdown run, it was Kony Ealy, and then you had the other two tight
18:29ends, Jeremy Rucker uh and Mason Taylor blocking for him around the left side.
18:34Uh really, really fun usage. I think Kony Ealy is worth a stash in deep leagues. Uh then you have quarterbacks here.
18:40Malik Willis only being rostered in 21% of leagues is nuts. He is the QB 13 this past week versus the Raiders, but I kind
18:47of like him in really any matchup to be a high-end QB 2. Tyler Shough was amazing this week. I think this
18:52offensive environment is good enough that doesn't matter who Shough plays, he'll be in the mix as a high-end QB 2.
18:58Bryce Young was the QB 3 on the week against the Bears defense, so wouldn't go crazy, but he does get Atlanta in
19:04their dome this week. That could be a good matchup. And then if we're really dumpster diving, C.J. Stroud does get Cincinnati this week after being the QB
19:1215 against the bills. But that is going to do it for us today. Again, I'm going to post this video and then get straight
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19:28But if you can't support there, leave a like, subscribe if you're new, and I'll see y'all in the next one.
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